The Art of Living and Dying

The Art of Living and Dying
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Why are we afraid of death? Should we tell someone they are dying? Is reincarnation true? With depth, clarity, compassion, and even humor, Osho answers the questions we all have about this most sacred of mysteries and offers practical guidance for meditation and support.
Osho reveals not only that our fear of death is based on a misunderstanding, but that dying is an opportunity for inner growth. When life is lived consciously and totally, death is not a catastrophe but a joyous climax: "Freedom from attachment makes you capable of entering into the universal light and becoming one with it. And that is the greatest blessing, the ultimate ecstasy beyond which nothing else exists. You have come home."
Chapter Titles
    Introduction
    Part 1: Taking on the Last Taboo
    #1: In Search of the Deathless
    #2: Caveat: The Problem of Belief
    #3: The Many Faces of Death
    #4: East and West, Death and Sex
    #5: Unfinished Business
    #6: Responses to Questions
    Part 2: Unknown Journey: Understanding and Facing Our Fears
    #7: In Search of Immortality
    #8: Not an Enemy but a Friend
    #9: The Courage to Live
    #10: Responses to Questions
    Part 3: Milestones on the Path
    #11: Drowned in Emptiness
    #12: Using Pain as a Meditation
    #13: Responses to Questions
    #14: Techniques for dealing with pain
    Part 4: Time to Say Goodbye: Insights for Caretakers and the Bereaved
    #15: The Great Revelation
    #16: Being There
    #17: Responses to Questions
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Why are we afraid of death? Should we tell someone they are dying? Is reincarnation true? With depth, clarity, compassion, and even humor, Osho answers the questions we all have about this most sacred of mysteries and offers practical guidance for meditation and support.

Excerpt from: The Art of Living and Dying, Introduction
"Life is spread out over a long time – seventy years, one hundred years. Death is intense because it is not spread out – it is in a single moment. Life has to pass one hundred years or seventy years, it cannot be so intense. Death comes in a single moment; it comes whole, not fragmentary. It will be so intense you cannot know anything more intense. But if you are afraid, if before death comes you have escaped, if you have become unconscious because of the fear, you have missed one of the golden opportunities, the golden gate. If your whole life you have been accepting things, when death comes, patiently, passively you will accept and enter into it without any effort to escape. If you can enter death passively, silently, without any effort, death disappears.
"It is the attachment. You can go on living but as the idea of death strikes you, you will start trembling. But if you are not attached to anything, death can come this very moment and you will be in a very welcoming mood. You will be absolutely ready to go. In front of such a man, death is defeated. Death is defeated only by those who are ready to die any moment, without any reluctance. They become the immortals, they become the buddhas.

"This freedom is the goal of all religious search. Freedom from attachment is freedom from death. Freedom from attachment is freedom from the wheel of birth and death. Freedom from attachment makes you capable of entering into the universal light and becoming one with it. And that is the greatest blessing, the ultimate ecstasy beyond which nothing else exists. You have come home." Osho

In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
death… acceptance… opportunities… attachment… welcoming… freedom… ecstasy… pain… meditation… techniques…

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Type    Compilations
Publisher    Watkins
ISBN-13    978-1780285313
Dimensions (size)    0.9 x 5.2 x 8.3 inches
Number of Pages    272